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Winter 2008–2009: December
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December
2008 read
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Best books for preschoolers
• Ten Little Fingers and
Ten Little Toes written by Mem Fox, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury,
Harcourt, 1–5
years.
• Ghosts in the House!
by Kazuno Kohara, Roaring Brook, 3–6 years.
• Who Made This Cake?,
written by Chihiro Nakagawa, illustrated by Junji Koyose, Front
Street,
2–5 years.
• Dinosaur vs. Bedtime
by Bob Shea, Hyperion, 2–5 years.
• Old Bear by Kevin
Henkes, Greenwillow, 3–6 years.
Best picture books for the
early grades
• The Cardboard Piano
by Lynne Rae Perkins, Greenwillow, 5–8 years.
• Traction Man Meets Turbodog
by Mini Grey, Knopf, 5–8 years.
• The Pencil written
by Allan Ahlberg, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, Candlewick, 5–8
years.
Best fiction for middle graders
• The London Eye Mystery
by Siobhan Dowd, Fickling/Random, 9–12 years.
• Ways to Live Forever
by Sally Nicholls, Levine/Scholastic, 9–12 years.
• Forever Rose by Hilary
McKay, McElderry, 9–12 years.
Best fiction for teens
• The Graveyard Book
written by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean, HarperCollins,
12 years and up.
• The Last of the High Kings
by Kate Thompson, Greenwillow, 12 years and up.
• The Hunger Games
by Suzanne Collins, Scholastic, 12 years and up.
• Nation by Terry Pratchett,
HarperCollins, 12 years and up.
• The Astonishing Life of
Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom
on the
Waves by M. T. Anderson,
Candlewick, 14 years and up.
• Tender Morsels by
Margo Lanagan, Knopf, 14 years and up.
Best nonfiction
• Pale Male: Citizen Hawk
of New York City, written by Janet Schulman, illustrated by
Meilo So,
Knopf, 6 years and
up.
• Christo and Jeanne-Claude:
Through the Gates and Beyond by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan,
Flash Point/Porter/Roaring
Brook, 9 years and up.
• Our White House: Looking
In, Looking Out, Candlewick, 9 years and up.
• The Lincolns: A Scrapbook
Look at Abraham and Mary by Candace Fleming, Schwartz &
Wade/Random, 9
years and up.
• We Are the Ship: The Story
of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson, Jump at the Sun/Hyperion,
9 years and up.
• The Way We Work: Getting
to Know the Amazing Human Body by David Macaulay, Lorraine/Houghton,
12 years and up.
January
2009 read
this issue
Five questions for Sally
Nicholls
• Ways to Live Forever
by Sally Nicholls, Levine/Scholastic, 9–12 years.
First novels
• The Unnameables by
Ellen Booraem, Harcourt, 8–12 years.
• Graceling by Kristin
Cashore, Harcourt, 10–14 years.
• Wondrous Strange
by Lesley Livingston, HarperTeen, 12–16 years.
• The Great Wide Sea
by M. H. Herlong, Viking, 9–12 years.
First chapters
• The Home-Run King
written by Patricia C. McKissack, illustrated by Gordon C. James,
Viking,
8–11 years.
• Highway Cats written
by Janet Taylor Lisle, illustrated by David Frankland, Philomel,
8–11 years.
• Happenstance Found
by P. W. Catanese, Aladdin/Simon, 9–12 years.
• The Porcupine Year
by Louise Erdrich, HarperCollins, 8–12 years.
Pioneers
• Wangari’s Trees
of Peace: A True Story from Africa by Jeanette Winter, Harcourt,
6–9 years.
• Art from Her Heart: Folk
Artist Clementine Hunter written by Kathy Whitehead, illustrated
by
Shane W. Evans, Putnam,
6–9 years.
• Home on the Range: John
A. Lomax and His Cowboy Songs written by Deborah Hopkinson,
illustrated by S. D.
Schindler, Putnam, 6–9 years.
• Honda: The Boy Who Dreamed
of Cars written by Mark Weston, illustrated by Katie Yamasaki,
Lee & Low, 6–9 years.
Which came first?
• The Odd Egg by Emily
Gravett, Simon, 4–8 years.
• Humpty Dumpty Climbs Again
by Dave Horowitz, Putnam, 3–7 years.
• Louise, the Adventures
of a Chicken written by Kate DiCamillo, illustrated by Harry
Bliss,
Cotler/HarperCollins,
5–9 years.
• Chicken Said, “Cluck!”
written by Judyann Ackerman Grant, illustrated by Sue Truesdell,
HarperCollins, 3–5
years.
• Eggs written by Marilyn
Singer, illustrated by Emma Stevenson, Holiday, 6–10 years.
February
2009 read
this issue
Hail to the chiefs
• Big George: How a Shy
Boy Became President Washington written by Anne Rockwell, illustrated
by Matt Phelan, Harcourt, 6–9
years.
• Washington at Valley Forge
by Russell Freedman, Holiday, 10–12 years.
• Obama: A Promise of Change
by David Mendell, Amistad/HarperCollins, 8–12 years.
• Michelle Obama: Meet the
First Lady by David Bergen Brophy, Collins/HarperCollins, 8–12
years.
• Eleanor, Quiet No More
written by Doreen Rappaport, illustrated by Gary Kelley, Hyperion,
6–9 years.
Five questions for Betty Carter
• Lincoln: A Photobiography
by Russell Freedman, Clarion, 8–12 years.
• Abraham Lincoln by
Amy L. Cohn and Suzy Schmidt, illustrated by David A. Johnson, Scholastic,
7–10 years.
• Picturing Lincoln: Famous
Photographs That Popularized the President by George Sullivan,
Clarion,
8–12 years.
African American heroes
• Words to My Life's Song
written by Ashley Bryan, illustrated by Ashley Bryan with photographs
by
Bill McGuinness, Atheneum,
9–12 years.
• Claudette Colvin: Twice
Toward Justice by Philip Hoose, Kroupa/Farrar, 10–14
years.
• Up Close: W. E. B. Du
Bois by Tonya Bolden, Viking, 10–14 years.
• The Adventurous Deeds
of Deadwood Jones by Helen Hemphill, Front Street, 9–12
years.
Love stories
• Charles and Emma: The
Darwins’ Leap of Faith by Deborah Heiligman, Holt, 12
years and up.
• Partly Cloudy: Poems of
Love and Longing by Gary Soto, Harcourt, 12 years and up.
• Falling Hard: 100 Love
Poems by Teenagers edited by Betsy Franco, Candlewick, 14 years
and up.
• Flygirl by Sherri
L. Smith, Putnam, 12 years and up.
• Eternal by Cynthia
Leitich Smith, Candlewick, 14 years and up.
Baby animals
• Little Panda by Renata
Liwska, Houghton, 3–5 years.
• The Littlest Sled Dog
written by Michael Kusugak, illustrated by Vladyana Krykorka, Orca,
5–8 years.
• Ice Bears written
by Brenda Z. Guiberson, illustrated by Ilya Sprin, Holt, 5–8
years.
• Sneaky, Spinning Baby
Spiders by Sandra Markle, Walker, 5–8 years.
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